FF Signa

FF Signa is a typically Danish typeface, rooted in architectural lettering rather than book typography. Originally designed for signage—hence the name—FF Signa is now a typographic family with three widths. All weights include italics, small caps, and several styles of figures. Because of the quality of this “vernacular-lettering-into-typeface” conversion, FF Signa received a Danish Design Prize in 2002.

FF Signa is radically different from most sans serif text typefaces that were published during the 1990s. It neither belongs in the “humanist sans” category, nor is it on the list of typefaces based on 19th-century grotesques. Its concise letterforms and a minimum of detail produce clear and harmonious word images. Yet its proportions are classical, and the underlying geometry has been subtly adjusted in order to create letterforms which are at once interesting, harmonious, and contemporary. These features make FF Signa pleasant for reading, even at very small sizes.

The typeface has developed into a versatile family, with Condensed, Extended, and Correspondence versions. In 2005, a Signa Serif family was added; in 2011 Stencil variants and in 2013 a Slab version joined, too. The resulting FF Signa type system may be used for corporate identities, brochures, magazines, communication, books, and on-screen publications.

FF Signa supports 164 different languages such as Spanish, English, Portuguese, Russian, German and French in Latin and Cyrillic scripts.
(Please note that not all languages are available for all formats.)

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